"Coding" Newsletter

The results of the University of Texas at Austin's first full-semester foray into massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are in. But advocates for the classes, which are free or close to it, and open to anyone with an internet connection, recommend…

AN IRISH TEENAGER has won an international science award for his project which removed microplastics from water. Fionn Ferreira, from Ballydehob in west Cork, has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair, a prestigious annual…

Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn't yet announced. The new U1 chip—introduced with the iPhone 11 but never mentioned on stage at Tuesday's iPhone…

PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany have agreed to block Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, the French finance ministry said on Friday. In a joint statement, the two governments affirmed that 'no private entity can claim monetary power, which is…